You took the leap and built a cloud, but it isn’t having the impact you wanted. You were optimistic about the value of integrating cloud into your business, but you just aren’t achieving the results you expected. Forging the right path to cloud can be daunting, especially if your internal team doesn’t have all the necessary skills for developing cloud-native applications and building in seamless scalability. So now you find yourself with a lot of unanswered questions.

What is the best way to fit cloud into your business model? How can you evolve your infrastructure to incorporate new technology? What is the right type of cloud to help you achieve your business outcomes? How much additional education will your IT department need? To ensure you have all the assistance you need to build the right cloud for your business–no matter where you are in the process–we offer a comprehensive portfolio of cloud professional services to advise, transform, and manage your cloud journey.

Meet HP Helion Professional Services

HP Helion Professional Services has experienced consultants to support you through every stage of the cloud lifecycle. We can help define your strategy and roadmap for cloud; transform existing infrastructure, applications, and business processes; and provide management and support for ongoing operations and the lifecycle of cloud investments.

Many customers are integrating open source technologies into their hybrid cloud environment to drive down costs, accelerate time to market, and provide competitive advantage. We have consultants all over the world who are deeply knowledgeable about OpenStack® technology. Our experts can advise you on how HP Helion OpenStack drives business results, assist with designing and implementing OpenStack solutions, and help manage your enterprise-grade OpenStack cloud.

Manage risk

Reduce risk and deliver a secure, reliable cloud environment by partnering with our open source experts and achieve operational readiness with HP Helion Professional Services. We work with you to mitigate the risk of open source within the enterprise.

Simplify IT

Our HP Helion Professional Services consultants can evaluate your legacy IT environment–including platform, infrastructure and applications–to help you seamlessly deliver new services while continuing to support your existing IT environment.

Re-engineer IT spending

Our consultants work with you to develop a strategy that meets your business and budget needs. Tie your funding models to services that will drive innovation and give you quicker go to market opportunities and most return on your investment.

Embrace hybrid IT

We use a structured and proven methodology to create a truly open source or hybrid IT environment that considers all aspects of operational, technical, and business outcomes.

Go to market faster

Our open source experts can help you optimize your internal systems, reducing your overall resource burden so that you get to market faster and cost effectively.

Drive innovation

With OpenStack technology, you can quickly deliver new products and services to your customers, partners, shareholders, and employees, so you can stay ahead of the competition.

OpenStack technology distribution versus creating your own distro

OpenStack technology distribution versus creating your own distro

Stephen Spector, HP Social Media Strategist and Lon Tierney, Cloud Solution Architect, discuss the differences between using an OpenStack distribution such as HP Helion OpenStack and creating your own distro directly from the open source community website.

"Featuring our modular, integrated, and highly flexible sets of services, HP Helion Professional Services can help you understand all aspects of the cloud, create your desired future state, then plan, design, build, and enable operational efficiency of your hybrid delivery cloud solution—all under the guidance of a proven HP team."

Problems scaling your open cloud? Call the experts.

Whether you are implementing traditional IT, cloud computing, or a hybrid model that bridges the two, achieving optimal performance is critical to increasing productivity, retaining customers, driving revenue, and accelerating business growth. You need to ensure that your environment can meet the peak demands of your business, which means your systems must be built and tuned to scale seamlessly.

But scaling an OpenStack cloud can be a complex endeavor. And many companies find it difficult to get the cloud and OpenStack technology skills they need to reach their objectives. As the operator of one of the world’s largest OpenStack cloud deployments and developer of HP Helion OpenStack, HP has the experience to make sure your cloud can scale to meet your business needs.

Let HP take you to the cloud — and beyond.

Cloud is a response to the business challenges of today, which require the rapid adoption of new processes, new products, and even entirely new business models. By enabling change to occur in minutes rather than months, cloud becomes the very fabric of your enterprise—powering innovation while dramatically reducing costs. It’s part of a journey to the new style of IT that combines cloud, mobile, and big data. That journey is essential to the success of your organization. And it can begin today.